BBC Children in Need believe every child and young person deserves the opportunity to thrive and be the best they can be.
We are local to people in all corners of the UK, supporting small and large organisations. Thanks to the support of the public, we currently fund around 1,400 local charities and projects across the UK working with children and young people facing disadvantage.

The BBC Children in Need Appeal started in 1927 on BBC radio when it raised £1,143.  Since 1980 it has been an annual live television and radio appeal.  In the 1980s the charity was established as a grant-making trust to distribute funds raised by the annual appeal throughout the UK.

Since then BBC Children in Need, working in partnership with the BBC, has raised and distributed over £800 million to projects working with disadvantaged children and young people across the UK.